And where there is one or two other smaller children, especially if one is physically handicapped? I happen to come from this family.

A loan which can be repaid at low interest rates once students find employment is only fair and that should not really have an effect on ‘middle of lower class’ families, should it?
All that money could be put to better use such as extending the library which is pathetic and will remain so until funds become available.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090409/local/governor-backs-proposed-changes-to-stipends-system

It is not fair on middle and lower class families.

[Daphne – I’m not following the matter. But to be honest, my initial reaction is that mothers of university students don’t need to stay home to look after the children. They can work and put them through university instead of depending on other students’ mothers (and fathers) to do it through their taxes. Most families struggle to put their children through our FREE university only because most families depend on one income, whereas this is unheard of in the rest of the world, except among the privileged. Once the children have grown up, there really are no more excuses, are there?]

Don’t they have the FMA there? (Flimkien ghal Manhattan Ahjar)?

And yet, Paul Cardona claimed in a letter to the Sunday Times last February, that FAA “did not object to the Mellieha Holiday Complex expansion due to the hotel’s good track record in environmental care.”

So just because the owner planted a few trees, FAA decided to give the Mellieha project the nod.

In contrast, they launched a vindictive campaign against the Ulyses project many months earlier. Both the Ulysses Lodge project and the Mellieha Bay hotel project are outside development zone. Contrary to the Mellieha project, however, the Ulyses project already had an outline permit and it involved development on a site which was already committed by development.

Clearly, FAA don’t give a hoot about the merits or demerits of a development application. “The people” pick and choose which projects to tear apart according to criteria known only to themselves.

Tony Pace – Imma ghaliex ghandhek ghaliha daqsekk, jahasra?

Anyone tempted as well? Daphne was coming, but I’ll bet they would pelt us with rotten tomatoes if they see us both there.